Oct. 1996, San Francisco, California, USA --- Neal Cassady of the Merry Pranksters smokes a cigarette. Cassady is best known as the main character of Jack Kerouac's semi-autobiographical novels On The Road and Visions of Cody. --- Image by © Ted Streshinsky/CORBIS

Oct. 1996, San Francisco, California, USA — Neal Cassady of the Merry Pranksters smokes a cigarette. Cassady is best known as the main character of Jack Kerouac’s semi-autobiographical novels On The Road and Visions of Cody. — Image by © Ted Streshinsky/CORBIS

ca. 1946 --- Neal Cassady, the inspiration for the Dean Moriarty character in Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road, wears his first suit from a Chinatown tailor. --- Image by © Allen Ginsberg/CORBIS

ca. 1946 — Neal Cassady, the inspiration for the Dean Moriarty character in Jack Kerouac’s novel On the Road, wears his first suit from a Chinatown tailor. — Image by © Allen Ginsberg/CORBIS